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Citizens everywhere must be assured that oil and gas firms, as well as mining companies, publish all of their relevant financial information, broken down by country and by project, and including all payments made to host-country public budgets.
Driven by the momentum of trends in employment, industrial production, consumer sentiment, and corporate earnings, the case for sound fundamentals plays like a broken record during periods of financial market volatility.
Such mixed signals have further inflamed nationalist sentiments in China, and anti-Japanese demonstrations have broken out in many Chinese cities, including an attack on the Japanese ambassador’s official vehicle.
But no sooner have such pledges been made than they have been broken.
Of course, the impact of digitization extends beyond economics; it has broken down many cultural barriers, giving ordinary citizens in even remote regions access to information and ideas from all over the world.
Even in the more favorable conditions prevailing in the West, large state (and many private) firms often need be broken up, restructured, merged, or shut.
Such protests, however, would have resulted in further violence, and democracy might have broken down entirely.
Solemn promises made over the years would have to be broken (people would not get the social services that they paid for with a lifetime of high taxes), lives would be shortened (less money for hospitals and nursing homes), and overall hardship increased.
Kashkari is now proposing exactly the right approach: to hold public conferences and extensive discussions to evaluate whether large banks should be broken up, whether they (and other financial institutions) should be forced to fund themselves with more equity and less debt, or whether there should be a debt tax to discourage excessive leverage.
The old Soviet iconography has broken down completely; despite heroic efforts, not even Putin could restore Lenin, Stalin, and the old Soviet pantheon.
Broken bridges on the Danube, however, are not the biggest economic harm.
The EU fiscal framework, according to which national budgets are supposed to comply with common rules, is clearly broken.
One might say that establishing new rules regulating when and how the old rules may be broken smacks of desperation.
The school’s assembly hall, filled with students sitting attentively in their chairs, was transformed into a death chamber – blood, broken eyeglasses, scattered textbooks, torn jackets, and lifeless young bodies.
Indeed, many people believe that the Senate confirmation process is broken.
It would be a shame if a misunderstanding of what has happened in the US, combined with a strong dose of ideology, caused its leaders to fix what is not broken.
North Korea is the proverbial horse that has broken the stable door and bolted.
After walking several miles to get her count checked, she arrived at the clinic only to find its testing machine broken.
The UN is not broken, but it is in trouble, particularly as more countries treat it as a polite diplomatic afterthought and seek solutions to major global problems elsewhere.
Both are broken.
But broken eggs do not necessarily make an omelet: Bush's massive (and still growing) fiscal deficits have stimulated nothing but jitters about a prolonged slowdown in capital formation, household consumption, and economic growth.
Only with a well-defined mechanism for managing spillovers can the vicious cycle of capital-flow volatility and excessive self-insurance accumulation finally be broken.
If the present deadlock is not broken soon, serious damage will be done to European integration.
Everybody is confused: which set of common values have been broken by the Austrians?
But the spell will eventually be broken.
But this does not mean that evidence-based medicine is broken; it simply lacks the needed maturity.
Moreover, the power of vested interests that oppose reform – state-owned enterprises, provincial governments, and the military, for example – has yet to be broken.
Crushed by the bands and wheels of military vehicles, explosions of bombs and mines, and digging of trenches and walls, the desert's crust is broken and the fine sand particles beneath it are exposed to the wind.
But overweight, ill-educated, speaking broken Polish, Walesa fared badly on TV when contrasted with the permanently tanned, witty, and polished Kwasniewski.
Accelerating environmental reviews, approval processes, and land acquisition can minimize the costs and delays that mount before ground is ever broken.
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